Re: [mv] Serious limit in minivend 4 for malls, plus solution

[John Beima <jbeima@reality.palb.com>]

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G'Day Murry,

Actually I have a mall online with 121 shops, and we have NO problems with 
limits. My guess is you just need to structure you price file better... Because 
I see no limit in site. I know the next 100 shops will go in very smoothly.

John Beima
jbeima@palb.com
(780)451-1086


Quoting Murray Gibbins <Murray@scotweb.ltd.uk>:

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> <Murray@scotweb.ltd.uk>     ******
> 
> Using mv 4.0.4
> 
> I ran up to an internal limit in the number of strings i could have in a
> CommonAdjust directive.
> I got this error "Too many chained cost levels for item" .
> 
> This is a serious limit to the number of shops in a mall that can use
> complex
> pricing. Currently the mall I'm developing has 11 shops many more to
> come ( this
> is going to be the biggest e-mall in the country __MANIC_LAUGH__)
> 
> Solution
> ---------
> 
> Find the file Data.pm
> Goto line "if($its++ > 20) {", roughly at line number 1099
> Change the number upwards ( I've gone for 200 for now).
> 
> This really needs to be set via a configuration in the minivend.cfg
> file!!!
> 
> Has this been done in interchange?
> 
> If no one does it soon when I get time I'll upgrade to 4.0.4a fix it
> with a
> directive and submit a patch, however at the moment I'm very busy, what
> with the
> mall development and shipd, auto-shopping-mall generation scripts (
> takes a few
> databases and turns them into shops in a mall, fully configuring
> minivend.cfg
> etc usefull for auto-generating 200 shops :-), works too! so far 20k
> lines of
> code, it even does nested ranges of products!) etc...
> 
> Yours
> 
> Murray
> 
> 
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